John Moore (Lord Mayor)

John Moore was active in the lead business,[5] then in trade with East India, and became Master of the Grocer's Company.

He was a representative of the Court party in the reign of Charles II, and active in supporting its influence in the City of London.

[2] Moore was a Member of Court of Assistants (essentially the board of directors) of the slave-trading Royal African Company, 1687–9 and 1700–1702, and was an investor in the Guinea trade.

He was a shareholder in the East India Company, which was involved in the Indian Ocean slave trade.

Politically, he was a Tory and, upon becoming Lord Mayor, was celebrated in song as the man who would keep the commoners in their place:[7] May Moore ne'er cease to stand up for the Crown'Gainst the Presumptous Rabble of the TownA statue of Moore by Grinling Gibbons was erected at Christ's Hospital in London, but was moved in 1902 to Christ's Hospitals School, Horsham, Sussex.

Sir John Moore, Lord Mayor of London , mezzotint by James Macardell after portrait by Sir Peter Lely .
Statue of Sir John Moore at Sir John Moore Church of England Primary School , Appleby Magna , Leicestershire .